--- title: "Suraj Nair — author profile and papers" description: "Suraj Nair, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Suraj Nair # Suraj Nair Suraj Nair has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Ayah Zirikly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayah-zirikly/), [Brian Ichter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-ichter/), [Chelsea Finn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chelsea-finn/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103112625) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-7672) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103112625) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103112625) · [933 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103112625&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/#papers) · [🔗 138 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3449](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3449) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Suraj+Nair) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Suraj+Nair) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Suraj+Nair) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Suraj+Nair) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2018–2023 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Technical University of Munich** Munich · Germany 2008–2015 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) · [🎓**TUM CREATE** Singapore · Singapore 2016–2017 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02synbq51) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pertsch-2025-fast-efficient-action-tokenization-vision/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shing-2018-expert-crowdsourced-machine-assessment-suicide/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Expert, Crowdsourced, and Machine Assessment of Suicide Risk via Online Postings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shing-2018-expert-crowdsourced-machine-assessment-suicide/)** *(2018 · 288 citations)* The paper asks whether clinicians can reliably judge suicide risk from social media text alone, without talking to the person. 2. **[FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pertsch-2025-fast-efficient-action-tokenization-vision/)** *(2025 · 38 citations)* The authors investigate how to convert continuous robot control signals into discrete tokens for autoregressive VLA models. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ayah Zirikly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayah-zirikly/) - [Brian Ichter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-ichter/) - [Chelsea Finn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chelsea-finn/) - [Hal Daumé III](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hal-daume-iii/) - [Philip Resnik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-resnik/) - [Sergey Levine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sergey-levine/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 138 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/cited-by/).